Egyptian security officials said a strike by an Israeli drone killed five suspected Islamist militants and destroyed a rocket launcher.

Residents heard a large explosion Friday in the region near the border with Israel. The officials told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the attack was in cooperation with Egyptian authorities.

The Israeli military said they are looking into the report.

Egypt’s military and security forces are engaged in long battle against Islamic jihadists in the largely lawless peninsula.

On Thursday, Israel briefly closed an airport near the border after Egyptian officials say they warned of possible militant rocket attacks.

The rockets were launched on Wednesday morning and fell in open areas in the city, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Local residents and tourists were ushered into bomb shelters following a warning siren at 9 a.m., which was followed by the sound of two explosions. IDF forces found the remnants of the two rockets. One landed in a construction site in the south of the city.

A 23-year-old Westchester man was killed by Israeli soldiers shortly after he gunned down a hotel worker in Eilat and holed up in a the hotel kitchen.

Soldiers rushed to the hotel Friday morning after the man identified as William Hershkovitz of Poughkeepsie used the firearm of a security guard at Eilat’s Leonardo Club Hotel to kill an employee, Armando Abed, in the hotel’s kitchen.